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I received a disk with some nice HUD footage on it but my Mover Maker will not open the file. It’s written in a DVD-MPEG format (3.4GIG) and my desk-top doesn’t see it as a DVD or an MGEP file so I can’t “rip” it into a useable format. My laptop sees the file but, imports it into movie maker as a audio file only. I tried a number of things this weekend but nothing seems to work.

Do you think “imaging” the disk into a DVD format might help? I don’t have a DVD writer on my puter but, I guess I could take it to Kinkos or some place like that and have it done. Does anyone know of a way to convert the file(s) to another format using my desktop useing "some type" of program in Windows XP home??

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What is the extention name on the file? .mpg .mpeg .avi etc.
By "Movie Maker" do you mean the freebie that comes with WindowsXP? I tried that a long time ago, it works but can be kinda stubborn ( I seem to remember that importing as an audio file thing too ).
I have Honestech Video Editor 5.0 and it has an awful lot of capability, the demo version will only let you import about 5 minits worth, but there are ways around the demos restrictions havent tried anything as large as 3gig though.

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I just opened up a 2.8gig mpeg movie with Honestech like it was nothing. Might be worth trying out:
http://www.honestech.com/main/menu5_1.asp
http://www.softpedia.com/progDownload/H ... -3700.html
or I can send you the version I use, it's only 13.9MBs. LOTS and LOTS of fades and wipes available in it, not to mention text and audio.


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A 9mm has a bullet vent.

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Something I cobbed up with Honestech from a low quality video I shot with my little digi-cam a couple of years ago, shows just a small percentage of what Honestech can do.
For reasons unknown, putfile cut off the last 5 seconds or so. < shrug >
http://media.putfile.com/Boomerwood

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Boomer, the extension is MPEG and yes I mean the freeby movie maker that comes with XP. It's not a bad little program and it's what I've used to make all my music videos so far.

I'll take a look at the links you provided and see if one will help me out...thanks for the help.



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